"Selfie" is the name of Mathias Tretter's French bulldog, which the newly minted dog savant and medical cabaret artist plans to hypnotize live on stage and transform into a long-haired German Turk in his sensational new cooking show.
Initiates say it's his most political program yet. With Selfie, which is also the title of the evening, Tretter castigates the compulsion to self-dramatize in a post-democratic society. Politics, business, media, culture, but also the private sphere are increasingly the scene of the shameless exaggeration of the self. Today, even system administrators and kindergarten teachers present their CVs and hobbies in a way that used to be seen in the gala. In addition, self-portraits are put on the net that make Kate Moss and George Clooney look like Franconian youth hostel parents.
Mathias Tretter himself, winner of the prestigious German Cabaret Prize after all, is pleasantly modest about it. When asked by Peter Scholl-Latour whether he might not be able to change the world a little with his new solo, the post-structuralism fan and self-confessed paraglider pilot recently replied: "That's for others to judge. The most I can tell you is what the New York Times wrote: "Savior's Selfie - More Fun Than Is Healthy".
And asked about the content: "Le Cabaret c'est moi!"
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